Wild Intelligence : Poets' Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America / M. C. Kinniburgh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kinniburgh, Mary Catherine, author.

Series:

Studies in print culture and the history of the book.

Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Private libraries--United States--History--20th century.

Private libraries.

Poets, American--20th century--Books and reading.

Poets, American.

Olson, Charles, 1910-1970--Library.

Olson, Charles.

Di Prima, Diane--Library.

Di Prima, Diane.

Lansing, Gerrit--Library.

Lansing, Gerrit.

Lorde, Audre--Library.

Lorde, Audre.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Information science was a burgeoning field in the early years of the Cold War, and while public and academic libraries acted as significant sites for the information boom, it is unsurprising that McCarthyism and censorship would shape what they granted readers access to and acquired. Wild Intelligence traces a different history of information management, examining the privately assembled collections of poets and their knowledge-building practices at midcentury. Taking up case studies of four poets who began writing during the 1950s and 1960s, including Charles Olson (1910-1970), Diane di Prima (1934-2020), Gerrit Lansing (1928-2018), and Audre Lorde (1934-1992), M. C. Kinniburgh shows that the postwar American poet's library should not just be understood according to individual books within their collection but rather as an archival resource that reveals how poets managed knowledge in a growing era of information overload. Exploring traditions and systems that had been overlooked, buried, occulted, or censored, these poets sought to recover a sense of history and chart a way forward"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"Biblio. & Library": Charles Olson and the Maud/Olson Library

"Don't Forget I'm a Librarian": Information, Knowledge, and Understanding with Audre Lorde

"The Requirements of Our Life Is the Form of Our Art": Diane di Prima's Publishing, Cosmology, and Occult Library

"On Earth, Particular" : Gerrit Lansing's House and Library.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Kinniburgh, M. C. Wild Intelligence

ISBN:

9781613769331

OCLC:

1288423014